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Yes I know, I am behind. I am still on week 1 in the book “Music success in nine weeks”. Too bad;(
Anyway, I’ll continue now to write down my “Music goals next 12 months”:
- I play the electric guitar on stage, and I my skills are above intermediate level
- On our shows we perform at least 15 songs that I have written
- We have well paid gigs at least twice a month
- I have original songs enough for a full length CD
- I am confident and relaxed on stage
I have some more goals to write down for longer periods and in other areas, but I don’t I’ll publish them here. It’s interesting with goal setting because it makes you a lot more focused and structured. With so many things to do and so many possibilities I think it’s crucial.
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This is a preamp I bought on a night sale at Musikbörsen (a big music store in Goteborg) a couple of weeks ago. With this thing you don’t need a heavy amplifier for your electric guitar. Instead you connect this to the PA. What I particularly like about it is the simplicity. I used to have a Tonelab with thousands of possibilities and a thick book of instructions. That was too much for me.
On this thing there are a few knobs you can turn in different positions to get different sounds. When I play at home I connect it to a small amplifier and the sound is really nice. The brand is Damage Control in this model is called Womanizer (!), whatever that means…
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I was looking for another song by Sheryl Crow when I found this one. I never heard it before, and I even didn’t know that Sting was singing with her. It was quite successful it seems.
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I told you about the new band recently.
Yesterday I also rehearsed with a female singer named Marie. We will do gigs singing duets (both covers and my and her songs). I heard her for the first time during the Stage Voice concert in december last year. Stage Voice is the company where I took singing lessons last fall. She performed at that concert but then she disappeared. But I was so impressed by her voice so asked Stage Voice to ask her to contact me. And she did after a few weeks and by now we have rehearsed twice.
She’s really has a good input to music, and seems to have similar taste as me (mostly), and she is also very nice, which is nice. So I am looking forward to play with all these guys in the near future.
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Today we met and rehearsed for the first time. I am talking about Jens (drums, percussion who played on my record, and Jan (steel guitar, who also played on my record), and Magnus (electric bass, who I met for the first time). We had a good time together playing a few covers (No woman no cry, I shall be released, Oh Cumberland) and some of my songs (One Body, The Chinese Way, Angelica). It sounded really nice. Next step for me is to get some gigs, so watch out!
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I think this book I am reading now by Ariel Hyatt (Music Success In Nine Weeks) will make my music promotion more structured. I have heard and read about many of her ideas before on her blog and video blog, but now it’s divided into nine weeks and that suits me fine.
I have never in my life been setting up goals but in week 1 of this promotion project I will do that. I have been thinking for a while and here are my goals right now for the near future:
- Perform at least twice a month
- Blog, read blogs, comment on other blogs 1 hour per day
- Practice on my electric guitar 30 minutes per day (working days) and 3 hours per weekend
- Increase my fanbase (mailing list and facebook) with 5 people per week
- Buy and study Tom Jackson DVD
- Complete one song per week
The last one may be hard, but I have a few ideas that need to be taken care of.
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Now I am reading Music Success In Nine Weeks by Ariel Hyatt.
So this week is the first one and June 2o I will be done and reached success! (whatever that means)
Today I defined some focus areas:
- Branding – I may design a new logo with another font, and also a web-banner.
- Marketing – I may place a banner on some websites
- Videos – I hope to make two videos (They Can’t Make Me Waver and Getting Closer) during the spring and spread them on Youtube, Vimeo, local TV, etc.
- Online social media strategy – Blog more and read others blogs. I want to record simple cover videos and spread on Youtube, tweet more, get more Facebook fans
- Gigs – Get gigs in Goteborg and nearby cities on cafés, festivals, pubs etc. I could play alone, but I will probably be playing with other musicians,
- Practice – I need to practice more on my electric guitar, and I will also read a book I bought about songwriting to improve that craft (101 Songwritings Wrong And How To Right Them)
- Songs – Make songs out of some ideas I already have, and make demos of them
- Get more fans – Give offers, get more traffic to the websites, give out flyers, get more gigs
- Selling CD’s/downloads – 10 per month and 10 per gig
- Improve stage performance – get more experience, buy Tom Jackson DVD, etc
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I want to present my instruments and my other equipment. This is my Yamaha PL 120. I bought it in 2002. I write one kind of songs on the piano and other kind of songs on the guitar.
I find the piano the most complete instrument, because it’s so logical, och you can in fact get notes with the help of all of your fingers. I like my piano a lot, I usually use the electric and acoustic piano sounds.
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